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I stayes at The Alladin, next door, and we could use this Aquapark for free. Holidaying on my own, even though I love Aquaparks, I give them a miss. As this one was next door and not massive, I gave it a shot.... And I absolutely loved it. It's not massive, but big enough. It's friendly and relaxed, though after a while i avoided a couple of slides as the guy was getting a little too OTT-not what a girl needs, especially on my own. The slides are decent and and the water is warm-always a plus in February. The are sunloungers ect and you can get all your soft drinks/beers ect. The park is open from 10am until 4pm-though it's closed between 12.30-13.30 for lunch. It was an excellent and really fun day out and definitely worth a visit-or more if you have kids (there are plenty for the young ones). It's all very safe and there are ten's of life guards on.Please note, these pictures are from the Internet-I didn't take my phone in there as there are no lockers. Also, if you have a Water Sports camera, make sure you bring your head mount, otherwise you cannot use it on the slides.

Date of stay: February 2019

Trip type: Traveled solo

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Dear Guest, Warm greetings from Ali Baba Palace!Thank you for the feedback, we are happy that you enjoyed your holiday with us. It is a pleasure for us to have such a wonderful guests as you who appreciates our continuous labor aimed to provide the quality and comfortable rest.Looking forward to welcome you and your family in our Hotel assuring you that we will make your holiday unforgettable.Best regards, Hotel Management

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Dear Guest, thank you for the feedback, we are happy that you enjoyed your holiday in Ali Baba Palace. It is a pleasure for us to have such a wonderful guests as you who appreciates our continuous labor aimed to provide the quality and comfortable rest.Looking forward to welcome you and your family in our Hotel again assuring you that we will make your holiday unforgettable.Best regards, Hotel Management

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Ok for short break . Hotel nice , pool area and gardens beautiful. We upgraded to delux room well worth it . Beach area lovely most staff friendly. Food very bland different restaurants but same food. Poor internet and not free. Everything extra , sea food fresh fruit and smoothie.

Date of stay: February 2019

Trip type: Traveled as a couple

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I wanted to write a review for the kids club especially Anastasia who has been tremendous with my 3 children they have been more than eager to come everyday and that is because Anastasia has welcomed them been friendly and kept their days and evenings entertaining with lots of children from all different cultures she most have the patience of a saint and a kind nature to match

Date of stay: February 2019

Trip type: Traveled with family

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Dear Samantha, thank you for the feedback, we are happy that you enjoyed your holiday in Ali Baba Palace. It is a pleasure for us to have such a wonderful guests as you who appreciates our continuous labor aimed to provide the quality and comfortable rest.Looking forward to welcome you and your family in our Hotel again assuring you that we will make your holiday unforgettable.Best regards, Hotel Management

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My partner had booked a 9-night break at the hotel to celebrate a special birthday of mine. Although I was a little worried by some of the negative reviews, I concluded ‘ooh some people are just so fussy, they need to relax and enjoy themselves.’ All I can say is……... what a very very silly mistake.

When we arrived, although the focus of the receptionist was selling an upgrade room, the process was rather smooth and pleasant. A nice man put our cases on a trolley, whizzed us through the hotel to our room, although he had limited English (Russian is the main language spoken) he had a bright smile and took time to show us the air conditioning buttons and left us to settle in (we later found out that the air conditioning only had ‘cold’ setting and was too loud to have on during the night). There were no facilities to make a drink in the room, which is surprising, as we have stayed in some really rough places, which have always had the facilities to make a cup of something in the morning.

We were disappointed with the room, which on first sight the place looked very dirty and unkempt, but was actually desperately in need of a total renovation.

The bathroom had been poorly constructed, with large patches of glue on tiles, areas were there was no grout, wall and floor tiles were broken, the mastic had been used excessively to bridge the large gaps between the tiles which was terribly mouldy, broken door stops, holes in the door, open plugs and rust on the fittings.... I could carry on. The toilet was dirty and although the cleaner came and scrubbed the room a few times, (bless him he tried his very best and was a credit to the hotel) but it was clearly evident that no amount of scrubbing was going to repair broken furniture and fittings, or get me to stand in that shower without rubber shoes on my feet without a tetanus injection.The mould was that bad.

The living area was furnished with a two-seater sofa (which was filthy) a round dinning table (but no chairs…………the table was placed in front of the sofa as a weird and unusable coffee table). The bed only had three legs. There was uncovered live electrics wires, broken lights that had been glued together and put back up at strange angles, the fridge was missing grills, there were cigarette burns on the fridge and furniture, the cupboard broken, indeed all the wood work in the room was broken, the tiles were broken and dirty.

Communal areas - we looked at the beach area, whilst this was disorganised and crammed with sun beds the area was in the main fine. We also sat by the pool, which this time of year was separated into the heated area, which was busy and loud with children/families playing, this area was the focus of the entertainment team with games of water polo etc. The rest of the pool was very cold making it unusable, but the side of the pool was fine with lots of sun beds.

We also visited the water park, which was a few minutes walk away. We were not allowed on some rides (as there was only 2 of us), before going on the rides we were told to remove different items of jewellery, which appeared to have no rhyme or reason other than being asked to remove one different thing on each ride (a simple rule sign at the entrance would avoid this). The floor was very slippery (they had clearly chose the wrong tiles) which had resulted in several men trying to get the excess water off the tiles. We decided it was best to leave before we ended up in hospital.

From the hotel the water park has unclear signage; you have to walk past the hospital that is attached to the hotel…a rather strange, run down building, which was in the process of being extended (at least it would be helpful if you broke your leg at the aqua park).

Whilst the main communal areas (pool/beach) were reasonable, everything else was broken, dirty and dangerous. Live electrics covered with tape. Broken signs with live electrics. Damaged walls (all the walls need patching and the full property repainting). Filthy and broken doors and tiles. Filthy windows and window ledges. The hotel needs a full renovation of rooms and all passageways and an uplift of the other communal areas. The staff need training and to be told to stop sprinkling cat food on the paths for the several cats that roam and use the hotel as their toilet.

Whilst some staff was lovely (well the man who took our bags to the room, and the man who cut our wrist band off as we left), the majority appeared to be rude, minimalistic or ‘jobs worth’. For example, when sweeping the floor the man walked along the path and swept occasion bits of rubbish, leaving the rest behind them. Staff stood doing nothing whilst rubbish was floating around their feet (when I raised this with one member of staff, he told me it was not his job). After seeing one member of staff rapidly and repeatedly mopping a specific tile, whilst a large quantity of rubbish was on the next tile, I was left wondering if the staff are allowed to undertake any task that is not in their direct remit.

Although it was 27.1.2019, the hotel still had Christmas decorations up – although this reflected the neglect the hotel is experiencing – at least these decorations were not dirty and broken so I suppose was the best thing in the hotel. We were told the decorations were still up due to the Russian Christmas, I think they were shocked that I raised that their Christmas was on the 7.2.19 and should have been taken down before the 27.1.2019).

In the main reception area the ceiling had damp patches, ornate wood was falling off the ceiling, really weird and dirty plastic flowers going up the walls, the walls were dirty which was raised with the manager - the following morning a man was attempting to clean each individual mark of the wall leaving patches on the wall (it needed a bucket of hot soapy water and a good wash down, then a tin of paint…... not a dry cloth).

The hotel had a bowling alley, ice-skating ring and snooker tables which were chargeable, therefore empty - such a shame as if they were included in the all inclusive package the children would have had activities to keep them occupied (instead of sitting in the evening looking bored).

The wi-fi is very poor and expensive - we was told to go to buy a sim card from a shop outside of the hotel.

Our son had contacted the hotel prior to our arrival to request a cake for my birthday – on the first night we returned to the room to find a cake (from the restaurant) covered in foil with a tea light in front of it. The hotel staff had tried but really had no idea about customer services.

There are three restaurants and whilst they have their own theme, in reality the food is the same with a slight twist for each eatery. Given the issues we had already experienced with the room/communal areas, the food was better than we expected especially the spaghetti station. The puddings were a little yuck (but I think that this was just my taste as there was a lot of cakes that were really just lays of cream). We also had lunch at the beachfront restaurant, which consisted of several live cooking stations. We chose burger and chips, which could have been lovely if the chips was not cold and the bread was not stale (they could have dealt with this by lightly toasting the bread). I have to say the pizzas looked fabulous.

In the dinning room, there were several things that were not pleasant. A man selling frozen drinks approaches you several times during a meal and was rather insistent, the waiter will bring drinks but it takes forever, the waiters chatting between themselves as they work (even if they are at a table with customers or considerable distance from the person they were talking to). An unkempt manager walking around with clothes far to small for his frame resulting in inches of his lower stomach being on show between his trousers and shirt. Whilst another manager walking around with a mug of tea in his hand, talking to the staff across the restaurant. There were strange plastic flowers on the walls, which looked like wreaths from a funeral. In the bread station an old paint container had been painted and had home made flowers in (I would have been proud if a 10 year old had produced this – but it had no place within a food display).

In the hotel people eat early, really everything is finished for 8 ish, although one restaurant remains open a little later it is not comfortable experience. There is no dress code…. One lady was wearing her pjs in a restaurant.

The drinks are hit and miss and very much ‘make your own’. There were some glasses but in the main coffee and soft drinks were consumed in small paper cups (clearly the guests were not entitled to a cup) but when I had raised the lack of cups, a tray of small cups appeared.

The first night’s entertainment was not pleasant, consisting of a woman on a stage attempting to do a belly dance with no lighting whilst a man in a leather jacket stood to the side of the stage with his arms folded (he looked like her minder or pimp). The second nights’ entertainment was a singer who was better, but this ended at 10 pm prompt... time for everyone to go to bed.

After attempting to make the most of the situation overnight, we raised concerns about the room and the communal areas, and was offered/shown two different rooms, which were no better than the one we were in, indeed they were worse as one smelt of smoke and one smelt of cigarettes. We expressed our dissatisfaction and was told we should upgrade rooms – I refused highlighting I wanted them to fulfil their contract with me, by providing a clean/safe useable room.

We were then asked to wait until the GM came to speak to us, he arrived around 30 minutes later, and proceeded to show us two more rooms which in the 30 minutes we had been waiting had both had cleaning crews sent to clean them. Sadly the rooms were as still dirty, broken and unusable (dangerous electrics) as the others we were shown. We were told we had to upgrade. I advised that I would not pay any further money to obtain accommodation that should be provided on arrival, and although the upgraded room may be acceptable to the point of me being able to have a shower, the majority of the communal areas would remain horrendous therefore we would find alternative accommodation and move.

The manager later telephoned offering a discount on the upgrade, which we refused (I really would not have given the hotel one penny more - the hotel is not fit for human habitation). Sadly the time it had taken to show us rooms and the difficulties with wifi, it was too late to move that day but I managed to book an alterative hotel and tried to book out the next morning.

The receptionist appeared shocked. We were told to wait. The man who had been introduced as the GM came and attempted to persuade us to stay (despite being told we had booked another hotel and was leaving). They then insisted that we signed a disclosure form that we were leaving due to personal reasons – I crossed this out part out and wrote why we were leaving.

We were then told that we had to meet with the GM, and was taken to an office were we was introduced to the GM (the person who we were told was the GM was a section manager (he and the another man present throughout looked terribly uncomfortable with what happened next)).

The GM was rude, abusive and aggressive, he shouted, he refused to speak to me as I was a ‘women’ stating he would only speak to the ‘man’ when I told him he needed to speak to me, he shouted at me stating I was interrupting him and not letting him speak. It was only when I took my phone out and overly demonstrated to him that I was putting my phone on record, he stopped shouting but still remained abusive throughout. We explained our view that a hotel needs to provide acceptable accommodation, but due to the hotel needing a total renovation it was not fit for purpose, therefore we have booked another hotel and was leaving the hotel. What a horrendous experience and a reflection of the true issues within the hotel.

The hotel has such potential but desparately needs renovating, staff training and new senior management.

Room tip: Avoid at all costs.

Date of stay: January 2019

Trip type: Traveled with family

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